I hope he will communicate Copies to all tho&longs;e that are Students <lb/>
of Natures Wonders.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg817"></margin.target>Sig. </s><s>Cæ&longs;are Mar <lb/>
&longs;ilius <emph type="italics"/>ob&longs;erveth the <lb/>
Meridian to be <lb/>
moveable.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>This is not the fir&longs;t time that I have heard &longs;peak of <lb/>
the exqui&longs;ite Learning of this Gentleman, and of his &longs;hewing <lb/>
him&longs;elf a zealous Patron of all the Learned, and if this, or any <lb/>
other of his Works &longs;hall come to appear in publique, we may be <lb/>
aforehand a&longs;&longs;ured, that they will be received, as things of great <lb/>
value.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Now becau&longs;e it is time to put an end to our Di&longs;cour <lb/>
&longs;es, it remaineth, that I intreat you, that if, at more lea&longs;ure go <lb/>
ing over the things again that have been alledged you meet <lb/>
with any doubts, or &longs;cruples not well re&longs;olved, you will excu&longs;e <lb/>
my over&longs;ight, as well for the novelty of the Notion, as for the <lb/>
weakne&longs;&longs;e of my wit, as al&longs;o for the grandure of the Subject, <lb/>
as al&longs;o finally, becau&longs;e I do not, nor have pretended to that a&longs; <lb/>
&longs;ent from others, which I my &longs;elf do not give to this conceit, <lb/>
which I could very ea&longs;ily grant to be a <emph type="italics"/>Chymæra,<emph.end type="italics"/> and a meer <lb/>
paradox; and you <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> although in the Di&longs;cour&longs;es pa&longs;t <lb/>
you have many times, with great applau&longs;e, declared, that you <lb/>
were plea&longs;ed with &longs;ome of my conjectures, yet do I believe, that <lb/>
that was in part more occa&longs;ioned by the novelty than by the cer <lb/>
tainty of them, but much more by your courte&longs;ie, which did <lb/>
think and de&longs;ire, by its a&longs;&longs;ent, to procure me that content which <lb/>
we naturally u&longs;e to take in the approbation and applau&longs;e of our <lb/>
own matters: and as your civility hath obliged me to you; &longs;o <lb/>
am I al&longs;o plea&longs;ed with the ingenuity of <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius.<emph.end type="italics"/> Nay, his <lb/>
con&longs;tancy in maintaining the Doctrine of his Ma&longs;ter, with &longs;o <lb/>
much &longs;trength & undauntedne&longs;s, hath made me much to love him. <lb/>
</s><s>And as I am to give you thanks, <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> for your courteous a&longs; <lb/>
fection; &longs;o of <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> I ask pardon, if I have &longs;ometimes <lb/>
moved him with my too bold and re&longs;olute &longs;peaking: and let him <lb/>
be a&longs;&longs;ured that I have not done the &longs;ame out of any inducement <lb/>
of &longs;ini&longs;ter affection, but onely to give him occa&longs;ion to &longs;et before <lb/>
us more lofty fancies that might make me the more knowing.</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>There is no rea&longs;on why you &longs;hould make all the&longs;e ex <lb/>
cu&longs;es, that are needle&longs;&longs;e, and e&longs;pecially to me, that being accu <lb/>
&longs;tomed to be at Conferences and publique Di&longs;putes, have an <lb/>
hundred times &longs;een the Di&longs;putants not onely to grow hot and an <lb/>
gry at one another, but likewi&longs;e to break forth into injurious <lb/>
words, and &longs;ometimes to come very neer to blows. </s><s>As for the <lb/>
pa&longs;t Di&longs;cour&longs;es, and particulatly in this la&longs;t, of the rea&longs;on of <lb/>
the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, I do not, to &longs;peak the truth, <lb/>
very well apprehend the &longs;ame, but by that &longs;light <emph type="italics"/>Idea,<emph.end type="italics"/> what e <lb/>
ver it be, that I have formed thereof to my &longs;elf, I confe&longs;&longs;e that <lb/>
your conceit &longs;eemeth to me far more ingenuous than any of all